Ms. Austin's Fourth Grade

Weather Site

Weather Together

There are holes in the clouds where the sun peeks through,

Patches of sky, scraps of blue.

It’s raining rain and bits of ice

Bounce down like tiny grains of rice.

This weather together changes by the minute

And I can hardly wait to walk out in it!

Lillian M. Fisher

Below are some cool sites about our weather. Just click on a topic that interests you and explore the many different aspects of weather. All the words that are underlined and blue are hyperlinks and will take you to a teacher approved web site.

                                                                                                               

GENERAL WEATHER SITES FOR KIDS

Click here for today's local weather

National Weather Service Homepage

Weather Websites for kids

Click on this to see some great weather animations on the water and cloud cycles.

Weather Wiz Kids

 

 

MEET SOME METEOROLGOGISTS

Meteorology A to Z

Explore some wild and wacky weather with a meteorologist

The Weather Dude

Read an interview with a woman meteorologist

Florida lightning (c) 2000 Chris Kridler

VIOLENT WEATHER AND STORMS

Learn about storms

Why do we have storms?

Join a tornado chaser

Thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards

Lightning: Just For Kids

Sabrina’s Lightning Safety

FEMA’s Tornado Safety  

Test your knowledge on weather disasters

SNOW AND SNOWSTORMS

Snowtastic Snow                                 

Learn about some great snow activities

Why is snow white?

More about Snowflake Bentley

Snowflake Designs

Make Your own Snowflake

United States Search and Rescue Blizzard Safety

 

WEATHER INSTRUMENTS

Weather Instruments

Making a Weather Station

 

 

PRECIPITATION

Clouds-R-Us

Rainbows

EPA’s Global Warming and Climate Change Site –Some fun games

WEATHER FOLKLORE

WeatherWiz Folklore

Weather Proverbs: True of False?

200 Weather Sayings

Can plants and animals predict the weather? Find out!

 

All of the images and hyperlinks on this web page were taken directly off the Internet and are to be used solely for educational purposes. Update July 2005.